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Bueno de Mesquita shows the upside of mathematical modelling of social processes. He forgets that social network analysis overlaid on our communications data offers the same technique to the state but not to the people
State-wide database systems currently mooted as an antidote to terrorism will permit a lot to be known about how we are likely to behave. This use of mathematics for predicting outcomes will increase the power of the state to a level not seen since feudal times.
However, as a self-fulfilling prophecy it will enable to state to clamp down on terrorism and thus have the effect of fuelling terrorism through an over-controlled society and repression surrounding the terrorists’ communities.
Tony Blair on ‘extremist Islamic ideology’.
“This ideology now has a state – Iran – [not Afghanistan this time, not Iraq either? I thought the late S.Hussein was your axis of evil] that is prepared to back and finance terror in the pursuit of destabilising countries [how do you know? what have you done to verify this?] whose people live to wish in peace.”
“There is a tendency even now, even in some of our own circles, to believe that they are as they are because we have provoked them and if we left them alone they would leave us alone.
“I fear this is mistaken. They have no intention of leaving us alone.”
The ‘extremist’ islamic ideology is just that, extremist. The main stream majority in Iran will not tolerate extreme conservative policy in the same way that the American people will not tolerate a lurch towards fascism. The real agenda however, is that Iran is a powerful and proud country that has its own oil. A country of true democracy and equality with all that oil would be extremely powerful at a time when other previously oil-rich states like the US are facing an uncertain future with declining oil supplies.
UK ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair has accused Iran of backing terrorism and warned the world faces a situation akin to “rising fascism in the 1920s”.
[Yes, kind of. Except that the rising fascism is being caused by Western governments.]
Mr Blair told a charity event in New York that Iran was prepared to destabilise peaceful countries. [Well, since the West has been trying to destabilise Iran for the best part of a century...]
This man is helping to set up the chess pieces for a war with Iran. These are the same moves he and George Bush made at each previous step in their ‘war on terror’. These political madmen are being allowed to conduct their own private experiments at controlling the oil necessary to power our states and keep them powerful. And yet this is occurring while the citizens of the world are trying to move to a more egalitarian, sustainable and ecologically balanced society of man.
The US calls their plan the Long War, or the Project for a New American Century. Its aim is:
“Our aim is to remind Americans of these lessons and to draw their consequences for today. Here are four consequences:
• we need to increase defense spending significantly if we are to carry out our global responsibilities today and modernize our armed forces for the future;
• we need to strengthen our ties to democratic allies and to challenge regimes hostile to our interests and values;
• we need to promote the cause of political and economic freedom abroad;
• we need to accept responsibility for America’s unique role in preserving and extending an international order friendly to our security, our prosperity, and our principles.
Such a Reaganite policy of military strength and moral clarity may not be fashionable today. But it is necessary if the United States is to build on the successes of this past century and to ensure our security and our greatness in the next.”
Some European countries (e.g. Britain) seem to have their eyes on similar foreign policies far into the future, with no prospect of a more egalitarian and ecologically balanced world. In fact these policies point to a harsh world of permanent warfare ahead. The alternative of switching to a powerdown is not on the horizon. Fascism is.
From Wikipedia (creative commons):
On 14 November 2006 human rights advocate Wolfgang Kaleck, and Michael Ratner and Peter Weiss of the Center for Constitutional Rights brought charges at the German Federal Attorney General (Generalbundesanwalt) against Rumsfeld, former CIA Director George Tenet, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez and a number of other high officials by invoking command responsibility for their involvement in human rights violations in Abu Ghraib in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay. Kaleck, Ratner and Weiss act as advocates for more than 30 human rights organisations as well as 11 former prisoners at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. According to a spokesmen of the agency Federal Public Prosecutor Monika Harms will examine the statement of claim now.[50][51] On March 15, 2007, the city council of Berkeley, California endorsed the war crimes complaint from Germany. [1]
A similar charge brought by Kaleck, Ratner and Weiss in 2004 had been rejected by German Federal Public Prosecutor Kay Nehm with the explanation that criminal prosecution in the nations of the accused and the victims should be given priority.[52][51] Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights claimed that Rumsfeld was one of the architects of the U.S. torture program, and that he personally supervised the torture of Mohamed al-Kahtani, which is allegedly documented in the Schmidt report, an internal investigation.[53]
Read der Spiegel full article
Fool the press once, shame on you… fool them twice…
If Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majidida al-Tikriti must hang for his actions then does this mean that George Walker Bush will meet a similar fate? Hopefully the answer is yes, and then we will see the indictment and imprisonment of all their henchmen and ‘Little Eichmanns’. What we need right now is to round up all the criminals-against-humanity and rid ourselves of the lot of ‘em.
